LED ZEPPELIN: In Theaters March 30th

’70s concert footage of the band will be screened around the country on March 30th.

Led Zeppelin is coming to a theater near you — but just on the big screen.

A compilation of live footage will be screened around the country on March 30th. The 105-minute document combines footage from various performances, including the Royal Albert Hall in 1970, Madison Square Garden in July 1973, Earl’s Court in May 1975 and the 1979 Knebworth festival.

The Chicago and REO Speedwagon show last summer at the Red Rocks Amphitheatre outside Denver will air on AXS TV this Sunday at 8 p.m. ET.

Steven Tyler joined Britney Spears on stage last week during her Las Vegas residency.

Cheap Trick‘s Robin Zander and country singer Brad Paisley did a version of “I Want You to Want Me” last week aboard the General Jackson showboat in Nashville. Cheap Trick also performed at the event, which was staged by Sony Music Nashville. Paisley also did Van Halen‘s “Hot for Teacher.”

Yes will release a 14-disc, 72-track box set called Progeny: Seven Shows From Seventy-Two in May, as well as a two-disc set of live recordings titled Highlights From Seventy-Two.

Gene Simmons will host the official release party for the book Gene Simmons Is a Powerful and Attractive Man and Other Irrefutable Facts on March 31st at his Rock & Brews restaurant in El Segundo, California.

Paul McCartney and his wife Nancy went to see Kinky Boots last week on Broadway.

Dave Davies says the death of actor Leonard Nimoy is like that of a family member. “I met him in the late ’70s and he was an exceptional man with great charisma [and] a glorious sense of humor. I truly believe that he and Spock’s character helped in some way change the way people thought [and] changed people’s consciousness… He has enriched the back story of my life. I love Leonard as much as Spock.”

David Crosby says Neil Young is still “pretty mad” at him over negative comments he made last year about Young’s girlfriend, actress Daryl Hannah. Crosby says he has “apologized” and adds that “we’ll see” what happens.

Paul Rodgers has a few things on tap for this year. In addition to reissues of the first two Bad Company albums in April, he tells us, he is also working on new songs with Perry Margouleff, who produced his last album, 2014’s The Royal Sessions. He’s also readying a DVD of the Royal Sessions show he did November 3rd at London’s Royal Albert Hall. Rodgers also has some shows on tap.

With the Grateful Dead‘s three farewell shows in Chicago this summer selling out in minutes, the secondary market is flooded with seats. One audacious scalper is looking to rake in $116,000 on StubHub for tickets to all three shows. Three-day passes are also available on StubHub for $1,250.

The surviving members of The Dead — Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Bill Kreutzmann and Mickey Hart — will be joined at these shows at Soldier Field by longtime Dead associate Bruce Hornsby and Phish guitarist Trey Anastasio.

He stars in this latest clip from his new album, Shadows in the Night.

Bob Dylan has released a video for the song “The Night We Called it a Day” from his new album of standards, Shadows in the Night.

In the black-and-white video, Dylan is caught up in a love triangle with a showgirl, whose other boyfriend appears to be a mobster, played by veteran actor Robert Davi, who also plays Frank Sinatra in a Las Vegas tribute act. (All the songs on the album were also recorded by Sinatra.) The showgirl is played by Tracy Phillips, the daughter of former Dallas Cowboys coach Wade Phillips.

There is one thing in the video that may not belong. It appears as though director Nash Edgerton has made it look as though it is taking place in the ’40s. This can be supported by the fact that the cop car shown dates back to that period, as well as the car Dylan is seen driving away in at the end. However, the character played by Robert Davi is seen driving a late ’60s or early ’70s Buick convertible.

He’s got previously unreleased live material coming on vinyl for the April 18th promotion.

Robert Plant is one of a group of artists who unveiled Record Store Day release plans today (Monday). He’ll offer previously unreleased live material on vinyl for the April 18th promotion.

Plant’s More Roar, a three-track, 10-inch EP on Black Vinyl, will contain versions of “Turn It Up”/”Arbaden” and “Poor Howard” as well as a medley based around Led Zeppelin‘s “Whole Lotta Love,” which were recorded live during Robert Plant & the Sensational Space Shifters‘ 2014 World Tour. Its run has been limited to 10,000 copies.

NEW ON DVD- Released December 16

TOP FIVE MOVIES AT THE BOX OFFICE LAST WEEKEND 12/12:

1. EXODUS: GODS AND KINGS

2. THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY, PART 1

3. PENGUINS OF MADAGASCAR

4. TOP FIVE

5. BIG HERO 6

WINNERS & LOSERS AT THE 2014 BOX OFFICE

The box office was down all year. It was first year since 2011 that no movie earned at least $400 million. In fact only Guardians of the Galaxy even reached the $300 million level, though The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 will most likely get there before the year’s out.

Guardians of the Galaxy was easily the year’s biggest hit, earning critical praise and the most cash at the box office. Other movies that exceeded expectations included The LEGO Movie, Maleficent, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, 22 Jump Street and Ride Along.

For the longest time, women have not counted at the box office. Like at all.

Unless it was a Sacchariney-sweet Rom-Com, movie makers couldn’t care less about marketing to women.

But now that both Gone Girl and Annabelle opened strong with women this weekend (over half the audience), studios will be forced to change the way they market their films and might not be so quick to discount half of the entire population next time they’re marketing a blockbuster. (Variety)

A documentary film of the groundbreaking David Bowie is exhibition created by the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (V&A). Described by The Times as “stylish & outrageous” and The Guardian as “a triumph”, the exhibition features a remarkable collection of photographs, stage costumes, and other rare possessions from the David Bowie Archive. The exhibition was the fastest selling in the V&A’s history and is now on a global tour that has already travelled to Toronto, Sao Paulo, and Berlin to international acclaim, opening next at the MCA in Chicago until January 4 2015.

The film takes the audience on an extraordinary journey through the David Bowie is exhibition with special guests including legendary Japanese fashion designer Kansai Yamamoto, Pulp front-man Jarvis Cocker, and other collaborators, to explore the stories behind some of the key objects that document Bowie’s artistic career. The exhibition curators, Victoria Broackes and Geoffrey Marsh, provide fascinating insight into the most memorable music videos and original costumes, as well as more personal items such as never-before-seen handwritten lyrics, album cover artwork, set designs and diary entries, which reveal the creativity and evolution of Bowie’s ideas.

The documentary was filmed on the closing night of the V&A exhibition in London and directed by Hamish Hamilton., the BAFTA winning director of the Academy Awards and the Opening Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games.

ADAM SANDLER: Most Overpaid Actor

Adam Sandler is a long way from his days as a box office powerhouse, but that’s not stopping studio execs from throwing money at the funnyman. With bombs like Jack & Jill and That’s My Boy, Sandler tops Forbes‘ “Most Overpaid Actors” list of 2013.

According to the magazine, Sandler earns $15 million per movie but delivers only $3.40 for every $1 paid.

Close behind is Katherine Heigl, who returns only $3.50 for every dollar paid.

Rounding out the Top 5 are Reese Witherspoon, Nicolas Cage and Kevin James. Jennifer Aniston came in at number-eight.

THE NO. 1 REASON WE GO SEE A MOVIE- What is the No. 1 reason we go see a certain movie? The trailer. Yep, the juicy previews that sometimes reveal the only parts of the movie worth watching. Either way, we love trailers. Nearly 50% of us say that’s why we see a movie, while 46% go off a friend’s recommendation.

ROBERT DOWNEY JR. IN NEGOTIATIONS FOR AVENGERS 2 & 3- Sources say Robert Downey Jr. is sitting pretty as he begins negotiations to star as Iron Man in The Avenger 2 & 3, the first of which has a May 1, 2015 release date. The sources say Iron Man 4 has not been part of the discussions, and and it’s unclear whether Downey wants to return for another stand-alone sequel.

THE NO. 1 REASON WE GO SEE A MOVIE- What is the No. 1 reason we go see a certain movie? The trailer. Yep, the juicy previews that sometimes reveal the only parts of the movie worth watching. Either way, we love trailers. Nearly 50% of us say that’s why we see a movie, while 46% go off a friend’s recommendation.

TOM CRUISE RETURNING FOR MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE 5- Mission: Impossible 5 is a go. Tom Cruise has just signed to return for the fifth film in the blockbuster franchise, confirming rumblings that began after 2011″s Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol was a massive hit.

LINCOLN, Neb. — A man in Lincoln, Nebraska, has been cited for possessing pot inside a container that had been slapped with a label reading: “Not Weed.”

The Lincoln Journal Star reports (http://bit.ly/1DvAdjI ) that Lancaster County deputies stopped the man’s vehicle around 9 p.m. Saturday. Officers found the plastic sour cream container during a search of his car, and the driver acknowledged that the pot belonged to him.

He was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving and cited for having less than an ounce of marijuana.

SOURCE: www.startribune.com

What do you bet the D.A. outfits him with a “not guilty” sign around his neck before trial?

The eighteen Grammy winning rock god, British guitarist, singer-songwriter Eric Clapton, reached the depths of debauchery with his addiction to drugs and sex. He came perilously close to death innumerable times.Clapton finally kicked his drug habit in 1987, but not his sex addiction that reportedly led him into a flirtation – and perhaps affair- with Princess Diana, a tortured romance with Italian-French model Carla Bruni – later to become France’s first lady – and flirtations with actress Sharon Stone, model Christy Turlington and others.Clapton burst onto British music scene in the mid-’60s playing with the Yardbirds, John Mayall & the Bluesbreaks and then Cream before going solo.

He considered women, drugs and fan worship never less than his due.Turning 70 this month, Clapton has miraculously survived his dark side – a self-destructive temperament that he fueled with heroin, cocaine, speed, painkillers and two bottles of vodka a day.The only thing that stopped him from being able to attempt suicide a third time after swallowing pills and then hanging himself from a tree was ‘the thought that a dead man can’t drink’, writes Paul Scott in his compelling new biography, Motherless Child: The Definitive Biography of Eric Clapton, published by Hachette on March 12. Provocative insights into the life of the phenomenally successful Clapton are revealed in the following excerpts from Motherless Child:Clapton’s drug and alcohol days:‘It was all he could do to sit watching endless drivel on the TV, while gorging on chocolate and junk food.‘The consolation for everyone else was that he didn’t go out while he was on heroin. He was fat, bloated, constipated, a strange shade of yellow, covered in spots and foul-smelling from the chemicals in his system, added to the fact that he didn’t bother to wash.’The drug and alcohol haze lifted in 1993 but not the sex addictions:‘That same year, Eric gave up his last vice of smoking, with the help of hypnotherapy. Well, perhaps not his very last vice.

‘He was, indisputably, still in the grip of a heavy-duty addiction to beautiful women. ‘San Lorenzo, the stylishly laid-back Italian restaurant in Beauchamp Place, Knightsbridge, became his office. And office romances were on the menu. ‘He would habitually position himself at the same lower-floor table by the stairs. From this vantage point, he had a good ten-to-fifteen-second window from which to eye up the procession of lunching ladies, as they passed from the upstairs bar down to their tables.Princess Diana

‘One who regularly caught his eye was another San Lorenzo devotee, Princess Diana. They had first been introduced backstage at a charity concert for Prince Charles’s the Prince’s Trust at Wembley Arena in June 1987. Clapton later cringed that he had rather presumptuously addressed her as ‘Di’. For her part, the princess didn’t bat an eyelid.

‘According to a society friend of Clapton’s, who was also on speaking terms with Diana, the attraction between them was ‘absolutely obvious’. ‘There was a ‘Carry On’ film element to it,’ says the friend. ‘A lot of winking, and overtly steamy looks. A story went around that one time when she and Eric were both at San Lorenzo, Diana began sucking suggestively on a piece of ice as she gave him the eye. Everyone loved that.‘Did things ever go any further? ‘Well,’ says the friend, ‘they were both free agents and Eric’s always liked a challenge.’ (Diana and Prince Charles had announced their separation in December 1992.) Also, as two of her most high-profile customers, Clapton and Diana could rely on the utmost discretion of San Lorenzo’s ubiquitous owner, Mara Berni.‘Perhaps whatever there was between them soured, because a decade after her death, Clapton would describe Diana as a ‘manipulative and sick person’.

The Clapton charisma‘What is certainly the case is that Eric could be found at the restaurant on an almost daily basis in the early nineties, with an ever-changing succession of beautiful women, including actress Sharon Stone, supermodel Christy Turlington, Paula Hamilton, the Volkswagen advert model, Gae Exton, the former girlfriend of Christopher Reeve, actresses Patsy Kensit and Stephanie Beacham and TV presenter Davina McCall. ‘His success with women was not only down to his status as millionaire rock god.

‘Those who found themselves on the receiving end of the Clapton charm offensive discovered that he had a knack, either natural or carefully contrived, of getting on terms of intimacy very quickly. ‘Some compared it to being smooth-talked by a rather flirty advertising salesman. For others, everything about him seemed genuine. The reality was, probably, that it was a bit of both. ‘One thing that was beyond question was that the Clapton charisma was a potent weapon in the battle of the sexes. ‘It was built to a large extent on his unalloyed vulnerability and the perception that, for all his twinkly eyed laddishness, he should not really be allowed out alone without a responsible adult. ‘Even his notoriously terrible driving, crashing through red lights and leaving streams of fuming drivers in his wake, seemed endearing to the carousel of women he chauffeured out to lunch in his Mercedes or Ferrari. ‘Often, an hour or so before she was due to be collected, the object of his affections would open the door to a courier bearing some exquisitely tailored Armani creation, a gift from Clapton for her to wear on their date.

The Clapton/Bruni/Jaggerlove triangle:

‘October [1990] an exquisite, feline-like creature came hip-swaying into a backstage party at New York’s Shea Stadium, clearing a path through the air-kissing throng in a cloud of aristocratic entitlement and Marlboro Lights. ‘Following her nervously was Eric Clapton, dressed from head to foot by his new favourite designer, Giorgio Armani but, looking like he would rather be anywhere else than entering into Mick Jagger’s lair.‘The young woman turning every head in the room was Carla Bruni – the 21-year-old Italian-French supermodel and new girlfriend of Clapton. ‘They were there because she had begged Eric to introduce her to his friend Jagger at the bash to celebrate that night’s Stones gig. ‘Clapton, of course, knew Mick’s reputation for tomcatting and that he had absolutely no compunction about stealing another man’s woman (since his failure to make a conquest of Pattie [Pattie Boyd, Clapton’s love that he stole from George Harrison] in Paris all those years earlier, he had tried and failed several more times).

So, fearing Jagger would be unable to resist making a play for the beautiful Carla, Clapton took him aside and pleaded: ‘Please, Mick, not this one. I think I’m in love.’‘He could have saved his breath. Within days, the high-born Carla– who would go on become the wife of former French President Nicolas Sarkozy – was already beginning a passionate seven-year affair with Jagger that would eventually spell the end of the singer’s second marriage to Jerry Hall. ‘Clapton had met Carla, who was 23 years his junior, while recording Journeyman the previous year and they had been introduced … She seemed very taken with him and was a music fan, and when she gave him her baby-faced smile, he was hooked.‘Soon, ominously, Eric was, in his own words, ‘obsessed’ with her. The affair took place against the glamorous backdrop of New York, where shewas living and he was recording the album.‘Every evening, Lincoln Town Car limousines were sent all over town to collect her so the two could dine à deux at Bilboquet, the tiny but snooty French restaurant in Midtown of which Clapton would later become a partner.‘While Clapton was clearly smitten, the ice maiden Miss Bruni showed no sign that their flirtation was anything more than a passing fancy. Even before her meeting with Mick, Eric found, to his cost, how fickle she could be, after returning from a tour of Africa that July that included gigs in Swaziland, Zimbabwe, Botswana and Mozambique.

‘He immediately flew down to visit her at her family home in St Tropez, but she was not happy to see him and gave him the cold shoulder. ‘And just when Clapton should have remained cool, he showed his desperation, seeking out some of her ex-boyfriends in the hope of getting advice on how best to play his hand in the relationship. ‘That he had so obviously ceded the balance of power in the love stakes to a woman was a state of affairs that was as novel as it was unwelcome. And what Clapton found out from her former suitors was not promising either.‘They told him pretty much the same story: that the lovely Carla had a reputation for dumping men quickly and clinically. As if to prove the point, later she began standing him up. And when, reluctantly, Eric took her to see the Stones on their Steel Wheels tour, her clandestine affair with Jagger began. ‘Eric eventually discovered what was going on from the woman who had introduced them. She rang to break the bad news that Carla had moved on and was now dating Mick.‘A cuckolded Clapton, who was by now convinced Carla was the love of his life, became gripped by an obsession with her that lasted the rest of the year.‘In his 2007 autobiography, he said his fixation with Miss Bruni had taken some ‘grizzly’ turns and when he guested with the Stones a couple of times, he knew she was somewhere in the background. The fact that Jagger had the nerve to play around with his girlfriend behind his back caused a rift.

”For a while, I found it hard to think of him without malice,’ Clapton wrote in his memoirs. ‘Later on, of course, I quietly felt both gratitude and compassion towards him, first for delivering me from certain doom, and second for apparently suffering such prolonged agony in her service,’ he added, in a joint dig at his ex and his old pal Mick. ‘Afterwards, Clapton’s AA sponsor insisted he embark on a ‘fourth-step’ programme which involved Eric making an inventory, listing all his resentments towards Carla and Jagger’.